U-Report is a SMS mobile technology tool developed by UNICEF to empower youth to have voice on the social and economic issues affecting their communities. Despite the extensive use of U-Report globally, this case study focuses on the implementation of U-Report in Uganda, which was the first country to pilot...

Since the early 2000s, Uganda has placed an emphasis on bottom-up development by NGO’s and microfinance. The ‘people-centred’ approach to poverty alleviation and community development allows active participation and self-determination absent in the traditional market and state top-down models that discouraged popular participation and alienated citizens.

Beginning in 2013, NHS Citizen was created to give citizens could a more active role in the NHS decision making in England. Now Assembly Meeting are held twice a year in order to deliberate over citizen-generated issues and discuss with the NHS England board.

POWER2010 was a campaign created by The Democratic Reform Company that partnered with academics to systematically gather ideas and effectively lead a deliberative poll by a representative body of 130 citizens on the topic of UK democracy reform.